1920
YEAR
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ANNOTATION ON THE SECRETARY'S NOTE
December 11, 1920

Maria Fedorovna called from Petrograd
Call V. D. 
and asked that it be transmitted to Vladimir Ilyich
Bonch-Bruyevich
that Maxim Gorky departed for Moscow today
—
at 1:30 p.m., will arrive in Moscow tomorrow, December 12,
at approximately 1 p.m. Request
I request that you
send a car for him at the station, and write
down his answer.

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NOTE TO THE PRESS DEPARTMENT AND THE COMINTERN EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE*
December 17, 1920

I have no objection. Publish it. Send me **one** copy at once.

Lenin

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FROM A NOTE TO THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE AFFAIRS OF THE COUNCIL OF PEOPLE'S COMMISSARS
December 21, 1920

I request that this map** be posted both here and in the premises of the Small Soviet and distributed (the remaining copies) to the workers' clubs of Moscow.

Could one not also draw on this same map with **green** lines and green hatching the present boundaries:
(a) The Western "front" (Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Poland, Rumania).
(β) Crimea
(γ) Georgia, Azerbaijan, Armenia
(δ) Central Asia, Bukhara
(ε) Far Eastern Republic
(ζ) boundaries of the Far East
all of them now

Lenin

*The Press Department of the Comintern Executive Committee asked the secretariat of the Council of People's Commissars to find out from V. I. Lenin whether his speech at the Moscow Gubernial Conference of the RCP(b), already printed in the French language, could be published in the same form in German and English languages.

In the Russian language V. I. Lenin's speech was published as a separate pamphlet by the publishing house of the Moscow Committee of the RCP(b) in 1920 (Collected Works, vol. XXV, pp. 481—496).

**The reference is to a territorial map of the RSFSR.

LENIN MISCELLANY

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NOTE TO MEMBERS OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE AND THE PEOPLE'S COMMISSARS
December 1920

For the information of Central Committee members and People's Commissars

The following notes on the discussions and statements at the non-partisan peasant conference* are compiled by Lenin, who requests that you become acquainted with them.

At the non-partisan gathering:

From **Byelorussia** (Minsk Gubernia).

Salt, iron, and everything to sow all the land. It is necessary to give it. I will say no more.

From **Ukraine**.

The quotas are small (both for fodder and for people). But we will not leave any unseeded land...

From **Tver**.

This year it does not suit. There is no clover seed. The peasant sees nothing from the collective farms.

From **Ivanovo-Voznesensk Gubernia**.

Under the apportionment both the lazy man and the industrious one are taxed equally, which is extremely unjust.

Blacksmiths must do repairs at fixed prices (and carpenters too). Otherwise the blacksmiths and carpenters are charging 4,000 rubles and 5 pounds, charging exorbitantly.

From **Ekaterinoslav Gubernia**.

More close to life and to the hearts of poor peasants... Bread, iron, coal—that is what we need. Inventory is necessary.

From **Kursk Gubernia**.

It is necessary that the poorest learn from the conscientious ones...

...one can only say prettily that 120,000 went through the courses...

The conscientious ones must be supported...

*The reference is to the conference of non-partisan delegates to the Eighth All-Russian Congress of Soviets.